Buy Batman Arkham City GOTY

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"Could anything be better than being Batman and having a whole city to explore as well as solving a mystery in an insane asylum overrun by its inmates?"

About This Game

Batman: Arkham City builds upon the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum, sending players flying through the expansive Arkham City - five times larger than the game world in Batman: Arkham Asylum - the new maximum security "home" for all of Gotham City's thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds. Featuring an incredible Rogues Gallery of Gotham City's most dangerous criminals including Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, The Penguin, Mr. Freeze and many others, the game allows players to genuinely experience what it feels like to be The Dark Knight delivering justice on the streets of Gotham City.

Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition includes the following DLC:

Catwoman Pack

Nightwing Bundle Pack

Robin Bundle Pack

Harley Quinn’s Revenge

Challenge Map Pack

Arkham City Skins Pack

Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition packages new gameplay content, seven maps, three playable characters, and 12 skins beyond the original retail release:

Arkham City has been sat in my library since it pretty much came out. Although 99% of people who will read this review will probably already have City, it will just be a case of trying to persuade you to finally dust it off and complete it.

I have poured thirty two hours roaming around Arkham, it's a stunning looking game, even for current standards. The Arkham style combat system is at its best again, similar to Asylum, you can pretty much master the system when you can work out how to time your attacks perfectly, but you can add in plenty of combos to keep things interesting.

The main story is only one of the features here, I thoroughly enjoyed the main plot, with lots of twists and turns that keep you guessing right till the very end. Like most open world games, there is plenty to do apart from the main story though, tons of side missions, collectables and challenges that will keep this wonderful game going.

If you have the Game of the Year edition, you'll also have all of the DLC too, while some of it is useless in my opinion (the challenges) the story side of it is well worth playing through as well.

Basically, if you don't have Arkham City...well, where have you been for the past few years since it almost always goes on sale for at least 75% off, and if you are part of the majority who have it, I highly recommend you put aside a few days of your busy life and play this amazing master piece.

Anyway, this is the best Batman game yet released. Maybe the upcoming Arkham Knight will be better

Pros ++Joker,Ra's Al Ghul, Poison Ivy, Penguin, and more villains from Batman world+Nice combos and gadgets+2 Playable characters - Batman and Catwoman + DLC Robin+Emotional story full of plot-twists+Collectibles, side cases and more things that expands gameplay time+Nice case-investigating system

With Arkham City's being a free roamer really caugth my attention being that usually Free Roam superhero games like the Spiderman series really gives alot of potential on games for me. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=333813532Arkham City didn't fail and in fact succeeded in suprising me more than i thougth it would. Combat is amazing, free roam never got boring being that you tend to get that Batman feel everytime you leap from one building to another and glide your way to slam over an enemy never gets old.

The story is great, intense and the campaign is almost always thrilling. Boss fights are challenging and rememberable. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=335136498Map size is rather big, but nothing special. Stealth feels rather real compared to most games. A.I feels amazingly intelligent and you get that hide for your life type of feel whenever you're taking the predator approach in a room filled with armed thugs.

You can spend alot of time playing this game garrunteed, side missions are fun on thier own, and Catwoman being an editon to the gameplay as a playable character really only makes the experience that much better.http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=335291701Good story. Good combat. Good map and free roam. Spectacular campaign and only some slight character bugs.

3) Recommended purchase during a sale4) Not recommended unless heavily discounted5) Not even recommended for Steam game collectors

A bat out of hell

Where Batman: Arkham Asylum was a tightly knit and focused experience built around the gorgeously Gothic and moody environments of Gotham’s main penitentiary, Batman: Arkham City is like observing a bat take its first flight out into the wide, open world. Sometimes it's a little wonky and uneven but no less sure of itself and what its intentions are now that it has learn't about the power of flight. Batman: Arkham City feels like that proverbial bat in training that is finally learning to spread its wings and fly. Sure...it hits a wall or two on the way but ultimately ends up being victorious.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=475759082Where Batman: Arkham City suffers the most is that in expanding its horizons by giving Batman a bigger playground to roam - Gotham City - the cost is that while the city is often drop dead gorgeous to look at it is all rather dull to explore. Exploring Gotham City in Batman: Arkham City is a very static experience and bar a few scripted events here and there feels very much like a ghost town and not the crime riddled metropolis depicted in both the comic book and film series. While the transition from the linear experience of the first game into the more open-ended playground of the sequel might not always be the smoothest of rides there is certainly no lack of ambition on Rocksteady’s part to not try and make this the best-darned-brilliant Batman game of the moment.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=474110603If you can look past all the silly diversions and a city devoid of any actual life and focus purely on the main story-line quest then Batman: Arkham City is just as illustrious and dare I say exhilarating as its award winning predecessor. In many ways when Batman: Arkham City narrows its focus it becomes all the better for it often surpassing the brilliance of the original. However, with that being said not all side quests on offer throughout the game are frivolous time wasters and some do actually offer a peek into a city on the brink of collapse thanks to corruption and crime. It's just a pity that some of these quests don't really work at fostering the momentum that Batman has finally arrived in Gotham City to do what he does best.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=473870569Once again a litany of super-villains throw themselves at Batman with much aplomb but this time round they feel more fleshed out as each are given more space to breath. They feel better characterized this time around as each villain is given his/her own piece of the center stage (a stage that was dominated by the Joker in Batman: Arkham Asylum) as the adventure unfolds. Combat remains largely unchanged although new special combo moves and gadgets are introduced this time to help keep things fresh. Also combat has been nicely overhauled in the sense that when fighting hordes of enemies it becomes easier than in the first game to actually use some of those awesome gadgets at your disposal to help turn the tide of the battle. Both Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamil return to reprise their roles as Batman and Joker and once again Mark Hamil steals the show. There is a certain kind of manic energy on display yet again that makes Hamils performance an utter delight to watch.

At the end of the day I can't say I am personally won over by the open world approach that Batman: Arkham City adopts but I certainly don't see it as a failure. There is a lot to enjoy here and when the game hits its stride it really shines in ways I never thought imaginable, given the pedigree of the first game. I like to see it as Rocksteady taking that first flight out into an uncharted airspace that they hopefully refine into a diamond with Batman Arkham Knight (once all the PC performance issues have been dealt with). Ultimately Batman: Arkham City emerges as a game that is definitely worthy of your attention and worth at least one complete playthrough.

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Aw Batman Arkham City that game that I've loved since 2011 back then and still today. I remember getting Arkham Asylum on Xbox 360 on Christmas Day and finshed it that evening with much anticipation for a sequal. Since then I was hooked to this game franchise. I grew up on both Marvel and DC Comics as a child and still keep up with both companies as a 24 year old today. Batman was that one franchise in gaming I hated ever since the sega genesis days. Then Rocksteady suprised everyone with Batman Arkham Asylum which was far from perfect but was a darn good game as one that brought Batman back. Now we have Arkham City, oh boy. A great game that is near perfected in every way from the city art design to the crazy characters you both love or hate in one big open city. Granted its not Skyrim in size, but its very impressive in what Rocksteady has done with this game. After my lengthy time spent in this game, I still come back for more and can't seem to put this game down. Each character is crafted in this game with care and passion as evident with Rocksteady and this pays off. Many people like myself rooted for Arkham City back in 2011 for Game of the Year and to this day I still think it should have won, but Skyrim is a great game as well. Overvall if looking to be the capped crusader in all his Bat glory, then this game will help you with that and then some.

Playing this, would be a great kick off to Batman Arkham Knight as this and Batman Arkham Aslyum are essential in my opinion to play priror to Batman Arkham Knight. Kinda like playing Mass Effect 1 and 2 before Mass Effect 3 to get the full story and impact of its world.

Batman Arkham City gets a 10 out of 10 and one game I love greatly as a gamer, In all my 15+ years of gaming, Batman Arkham series is truly one of a kind for me and one I recommend to everyone to play or try out once.